Curatorial Narrative Flix Vallotton’s Dimanche 26 septembre 1897 exists at the confluence of Art Nouveau’s sinuous lines and an emerging Modernist sensibility. Created without a specific date but undoubtedly rooted in late 19th-century France, this piece exemplifies the artist’s penchant for exploring the everyday as extraordinary. The subject matter, a still life of fruit and flowers, is imbued with an air of detachment, as if Vallotton has deliberately stripped away ornamentation to reveal the underlying structure of his composition. This linear brushwork, characteristic of Art Nouveau, lends itself to a sense of spatial rhythm, where each element is juxtaposed in relation to its neighbors.Upon enlargement to 44×67 inches, the black and white palette takes on an almost three-dimensional quality, imbuing the space with a deep atmospheric weight. The chromatic structure of this large-scale print begins to interact with material pair